A $28.87 billion plan to protect the Texas Gulf Coast’s residents and infrastructure against hurricanes and storm surge with a series of coastal storm risk management and ecosystem restoration projects took a step closer to reality Sept. 10 with the release of a final feasibility report and final environmental impact statement from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Texas General Land Office (GLO).
The study looked at more than 3,300 miles of estuarine shoreline from Cameron County at the southern point of Texas to Orange County on the border of Louisiana. It recommends “multiple lines of defense for the Texas coast.”
